Dammit, I *NEVER* win the Nobel Peace Prize....

Dookus

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Fri Oct-10-03 04:24 AM
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Dammit, I *NEVER* win the Nobel Peace Prize....

this was the 42nd year in a row I've failed to win, and I'm miffed. I thought for sure I'd clinched it this year with my "No War" sign in my front window. Sigh... it's all political.

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emad

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Fri Oct-10-03 04:28 AM
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1. Remember Groucho Marx......?

who said he'd never join any club that would have him as a member....

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Awsi Dooger

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Fri Oct-10-03 04:36 AM
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2. You sound like underpants

Last April he was grumbling about never being drafted by the NFL or other sports, despite a stellar high school career in which every kick got airborne.

I'll root for each of you next time.

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JVS

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Fri Oct-10-03 04:46 AM
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3. Kissinger got one.

The easiest way to get one is to become a vicious warmonger and then tone it down a little bit.

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Don_G

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Fri Oct-10-03 04:50 AM
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4. Maybe They Don't Know About Your Chop-Lickin' Friends

Edited on Fri Oct-10-03 04:57 AM by Don_G

How hard is is to keep peace in your household with a passsel of domesticated polecats fighting over Tuna?

You think Dimbo or Arafat could or would in the middle of dinner?

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OldEurope

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Fri Oct-10-03 04:54 AM
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5. Are you tired or did the cats steal some letters?

:evilgrin:

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Don_G

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Fri Oct-10-03 05:02 AM
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6. I Respect My Hairy Friend

But watch that hairy beast closely after the "Turkey Sandwich" incident.

I should have never "just' stuck it in my front pocket.

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OldEurope

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Fri Oct-10-03 05:07 AM
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7. I feel with you...

...I always wondered how they could manage to put a hair or two into my yoghurt BEFORE I opened the closure.

:silly:

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no_hypocrisy

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Fri Oct-10-03 05:22 AM
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8. Think of the bright side: * was nominated, expected to win, but the Nobel

committe wasn't using punch cards to vote!

Sorry that you were once again overlooked. Try again next year...

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Kamika

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Fri Oct-10-03 06:06 AM
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9. i never even heard of the woman nominated

They sure pick unusual people

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GOPisEvil

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Fri Oct-10-03 07:09 AM
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11. Mother Teresa and Jane Addams are two Peace Prize winners.

http://www.nobel.se/peace/laureates/

:-)

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trigz

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Fri Oct-10-03 08:35 AM
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17. Things aren't quite stable everywhere, and so I reckon they didn't

want to be too controversial. Vanunu was my personal favourite, but I think the general world situation caused them to go for the least controversial candidate (other than the Pope); an Iranian human rights activist.

The fact of Kissinger getting the price back in 1979 has dishonoured the Peace Price forever in my opinion.

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Jeff in Cincinnati

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Fri Oct-10-03 06:57 AM
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10. My beef...

Once again I was passed over for People magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive."

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trof

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Fri Oct-10-03 07:18 AM
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12. and they sold my winning lottery ticket

to some other guy
:-(

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Jeff in Cincinnati

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Fri Oct-10-03 07:21 AM
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13. Damn them!

I'd write a nasty letter to the CEO

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DrGonzoLives

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Fri Oct-10-03 08:30 AM
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14. I'm 0 for 25

And I have done very well at not beating the living shit out of all the people that aggravate me. Does that not count for anything anymore?

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GOPisEvil

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Fri Oct-10-03 08:32 AM
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15. No kidding...I've gone YEARS without smacking Tony LaRussa...

...doesn't that count for anything? :shrug:

Oh well...I'm 0-35, but in reality, I'm only 0-17, since life before 18 doesn't count. :P

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DrGonzoLives

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Fri Oct-10-03 08:34 AM
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16. Actually

you might WIN the thing if you get rid of LaRussa and his second-rate flunky asshole Duncan...gaaaahhhhhhhh :argh:

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GOPisEvil

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Fri Oct-10-03 08:41 AM
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19. Tell me about it...pitching staff micro-managers!

:argh:

Ahh...that felt better.

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LynneSin

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Fri Oct-10-03 08:41 AM
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18. I'll nominate you, you nominate me for next year

Maybe we can co-win next years award!!!

If Bush can get a nomination then geez, your war sign in the window should be a shoo-in for the award!!

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Dookus

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Fri Oct-10-03 01:17 PM
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20. OK.. HERE'S a loser who....

doesn't take it lying down:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/10/10/national/main577516.shtml

A researcher who says he was unjustly excluded from this year's Nobel Prize in medicine has placed full-page newspaper ads in the United States asking people to write to the Nobel committee in protest.

A cutout coupon in the ads asks members of the committee to have the two named winners share the prize with Dr. Raymond Damadian, who is founder and president of Fonar Corp. in Melville, New York. He said his company paid for the ads.

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